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We here investigate the possibility that the ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) events observed above the GZK limit are mostly protons accelerated in reconnection sites just above the magnetosphere of newborn millisecond pulsars which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , A. Lazarian

In spite a lot of theoretical and experimental effort that has been achieved in ultra-high energy cosmic ray (UHECR) scattering research in last few decades, some questions remain unanswered, or partially answered. Two of them, that will be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-29 M. Vukcevic

We study about ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) from transient sources, propagating in the Galactic and intergalactic space. Based on the recent observational results, we also estimate upper and lower bounds on the rate of transient…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-07-05 Kohta Murase , Hajime Takami

Ultra high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are believed to be protons accelerated in magnetized plasma outflows of extra-Galactic sources. The acceleration of protons to ~10^{20} eV requires a source power L>10^{47} erg/s. The absence of steady…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-28 Eli Waxman , Abraham Loeb

The nature of the unknown sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays can be revealed through the detection of the GZK feature in the cosmic ray spectrum, resulting from the production of pions by ultra-high energy protons scattering off the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Daniel De Marco , Pasquale Blasi , Angela V. Olinto

The composition of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic rays E>10^17 eV is still unknown. The observation of UHE photons would extend the observed electromagnetic spectrum to highest energy and open a new channel for multimessenger observations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-06-18 Daniel Kuempel , Karl-Heinz Kampert , Markus Risse

We present a new method for calculating arrival distribution of UHECRs including modifications by the galactic magnetic field. We perform numerical simulations of UHE anti-protons, which are injected isotropically at the earth, in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 H. Yoshiguchi , S. Nagataki , K. Sato

The surprising isotropy of the ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) sky makes it difficult to identify their sources. Observables such as energy spectrum, mass composition and arrival directions are affected by interactions with background…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-12 Simone Rossoni , Günter Sigl

Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays, UHECR, are charged particles with energies between $\sim10^{18}\,{\rm eV}$ and $\sim3\times10^{20}\,{\rm eV}\sim50\,{\rm J}$. They exhibit fundamental physics at energies inaccessible to terrestrial…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-29 Noémie Globus , Roger Blandford

Here we point out that an observation of Ultra-High Energy Cosmic Ray (UHECR) photons, "GZK photons", could provide an upper limit on the level of the Extra-Galactic Radio Background, depending on the level of UHECR proton primaries (to be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-02 Graciela B. Gelmini , Oleg Kalashev , Dmitri Semikoz

We simulate the arrival distribution of ultra-high-energy (UHE) protons by following their propagation processes in several strengths of a structured extragalactic magnetic field (EGMF). Comparing our result to observational one by Akeno…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-06-26 Hajime Takami , Katsuhiko Sato , ;

This paper is dedicated to the study how HE particle spectra, which are measured in cosmic ray physics and astrophysics, are influenced by the specifics of collider spectrum of protons.LHC experiments are providing us with the proton…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2022-09-15 O. I. Piskounova

(Abridged) Recent results from the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) indicate that the composition of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) with energies above $10^{19}$ eV may be dominated by heavy nuclei. An important question is whether…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Hajime Takami , Susumu Inoue , Tokonatsu Yamamoto

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have long been held as one of the most promising sources of ultra-high energy (UHE) neutrinos. The internal shock model of GRB emission posits the joint production of UHE cosmic ray (UHECRs, above 10^8 GeV), photons,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-02-10 Mauricio Bustamante , Philipp Baerwald , Walter Winter

The sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) have been difficult to catch. It was recently pointed out that while sources of UHECR protons exhibit anisotropy patterns that become denser and compressed with rising energy,…

Although cosmic rays were discovered over 100 years ago their origin remains uncertain. They have an energy spectrum that extends from 1 GeV to beyond 1020 eV, where the rate is less than 1 particle per km2 per century. Shortly after the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 A A Watson

A mechanism of ultra-high energy (UHE) cosmic ray acceleration in extragalactic radio sources at the interface between the relativistic jet and the ambient medium is discussed as a supplement to the shock acceleration in `hot spots'.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Ostrowski

We consider the effects of the Galactic magnetic field on the propagation of ultra high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). By employing two methods of trajectory simulation, we investigate the possibility that UHECRs are produced within the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Sean O'Neill , Angela V. Olinto , Pasquale Blasi

The origins and acceleration mechanisms of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) are unknown. Many models attribute their extreme energies to powerful astrophysical jets. Understanding whether jet geometry -- specifically the opening angle…

The rarest cosmic rays above the GZK cut'off $(E_{CR} \tilde{>} 10^{19} \div 10^{20} eV)$ are probably born at cosmic distances ($\tilde{>}$ tens Mpc) by AGNs (QSRs, BLac, Blazars...). Their puzzling survival over $2.75 K^o$ BBR radio waves…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Fargion , B. Mele